Moscow Can’t Stop the Music
The Kremlin is trying to suppress songs that defy Putin’s rule. It isn’t working.
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Janek Skarzynski / AFP / Getty Men Are Already Writing Off Ukraine’s New Prime Minister
Yulia Svyrydenko has heard the same sexist critiques as nearly all of Eastern Europe’s female leaders.
Xavier Popy / REA / Redux Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP / Getty Russia’s Repression Goes South
A group of Russian exiles thought they would find freedom in Georgia. They were wrong.
Photograph by Tako Robakidze How Putin Tapped a Well of Ethnic Hatred in Russia
Radical nationalists have infiltrated the country’s police and politics.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP / Getty; Pawel.gaul / Getty; Denis Sinyakov / Reuters. Putin Can’t Keep His Private Life Private
Russian journalists and activists have recently obtained extraordinary access to the president’s inner circle.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Erich Auerbach / Getty; Sergei Chirikov / AFP / Getty. The ‘Gray Zone’ Comes to Russia
Moscow holds certain hot spots abroad in a stasis of isolation and neglect. Now part of Russia is experiencing these conditions for itself.
NN / Magnum The Real Trade-Off With Russia
Political prisoners and hostages have been freed, but at a cost.
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Sources: Anadolu / Getty; Contributor / Getty; Alexander Nemenov / Getty. Evan Gershkovich’s Soviet-Era Show Trial
Putin’s security service is reviving pressure tactics from a terrible past.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: AP; Getty. Putin’s ‘Rabble of Thin-Necked Henchmen’
Who will succeed Russia’s longest-serving ruler since Stalin? Not even the handpicked elite can say.
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